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OpenAI is rebranding data centers as 'compute campuses' and promising local benefits to win over opponents.

The rebranding and community-benefit pitch aims to ease local permitting and siting resistance, which is becoming a binding constraint on new AI capacity.
Trade pressSlicast · November 6, 2026 at 17:39 UTC · US · Source: Fortune
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